NOVPUB"Does someone else want to follow after him?" Elder Lei Ji stepped forward and snorted, "Did you really think we would go out of our way to lie for nobodies?
Had it not been for the restrictions of this realm, I would have had around a hundred disciples lined up for the spot here."
Silence filled the area; those who were doubting their motives did not even dare to raise their heads.
These people who were so eager to rush into the domain appeared very reluctant now.
Clank!
In this moment of stillness someone finally stepped forward. It was the same cloaked man who still remembered what happened when the abbot prayed to the great Buddha.
The sounds of his footsteps echoed in the area; all the eyes landed on him.
His cloak fluttered in the air, but no one could see his face because of the hood of the cloak.
"This kid…" Just looking at the cloaked figure, Abbot Liang Chen and blood demon Chi Zu both frowned.
While the abbot seemed to have turned serious, Chi Zu shook his head and put an indifferent smile on his face.
"Is there something wrong about him, senior?" Standing beside the abbot, Meng Shui clearly heard his whisper and asked curiously.
"I am not sure if what it was…" The monk stayed silent for a moment before he spoke in an unsure tone. "For a moment, I felt a— a sense of weakness."
By this time, the cloaked figure was standing—somehow already before the gate itself.
Chi Zu's eyes narrowed dangerously. 'When did he…?'
Just like the others, he did not even realize when he had even crossed the bridge made of golden clouds.
The cloaked man raised his arm, and a jade-like hand peeked out of the long arms of the cloak.
He touched the veil of swirling void-like blankness in the gate, and his hand remained stationed on it, not pushing in or being pushed back.
"He is in the Golden Core Realm?" Meng Shui asked with her eyes wide behind the veil, but before someone could even answer his question, his hand seemed to be pushed inside the domain.
'Is he? No, it cannot be! This was not what we— who is he?!' While the others were curious to see what was going to happen, Chi Zu was panicking inwardly. 'No! I have to stop him.'
"STOP RIGHT THERE, YOU BRAT!" The thought barely passed his mind before the words left his mouth on their own.
He wanted to charge at Noah, but the dangers of Valley made him hesitate. Instead he did what he could from a distance; he conjured a huge scythe.
Woosh!
One almost the same in size as the one he used against Abbot's palm technique.
"Chi Zu!" Abbot Liang Chen's eyes widened when he saw the attack forming, but he was a bit too late; the weapon was already swinging down at the figure.
Before the attack could land, the gust of wind from the surge of qi reached the cloak man, causing his hood to flicker and fall back.
Long golden hair rolled through the cloth; its unruliness seemed to be the opposite of the eerie calmness in the golden eyes of the man it belonged to.
These eyes glowed, catching every split second of the path of the scythe as it kept coming closer to him inch by inch.
"Tier Five magic…." His voice drifted into the air before it could even reach the ears of someone else beside him.
Suddenly, he paused in the middle, "Just kidding. It's already time for me to enter the domain."
His lips curled up, and without looking back, Noah turned around and walked through the portal, missing the attack by a hair's breadth.
"What?!"
"Why would he attack the man?"
"Did he escape?"
Everyone present in the temple looked at the dispersing attack with a shocked look on their face.
"What?" But the most shocked of them all was none other than the person who attacked, Chi Zu: "How is that possible?"
"Oye, Bald Monkey, who was that kid?" He suddenly snapped at the abbot, his eyes bloodshot.
In his eagerness he seemed to have forgotten one main thing.
He was the person who went out of line in the territory of a righteous sect.
"Daoist Chi Zu," Abbot Liang Chen was trying his best to stay calm, but his expression was utterly cold. "You have disgraced the temple by attacking its guests.
I allowed you to join the event because I did not want to dishonor our ancestors by breaking their rules, but you seem to have no intention of letting me do that."
His aura flared uncontrollably, the kasaya on his body flickered as the rainbow-colored radiance coming from his body grew by several times.
Chi Zu, sensing the powerful aura pressing down on his body, finally snapped out of it. 'What have I done! I cannot let the plan fail because of my mistakes.'
He immediately calmed down and started regretting his action. Just because he sensed something off about a rogue cultivator who seemed to be playing around with the gate, he attacked him with full force.
"Abbot Liang, please be mindful of your age. I do not wish to cause any harm to your temple." With a cough, he tried to rationalize his actions.
"Don't tell me that the brat did not give you an odd feeling."
The old monk narrowed his eyes, hearing the change in his tone.
'What a chameleon,' he thought.
The rate at which he changed tone was even faster than a chameleon changing its color.
"So you attacked one of my guests because you sensed something different about him?" The Abbot may appear calm, but he was not one to back down when someone provoked him over and over again.
"Do you think you are still in the territory of the blood fiend sect?"
The withered old man groaned in his heart hearing the monk. He felt a heading coming to him as he thought about various ways to solve the current problem.
"I was in the wrong, okay!" In the end, he could only think one thing and apologized for his actions. "I will stay in the corner until the disciples of my sect come out."
The elders and the Arhats narrowed their eyes at his words.
"Abbot does not hear the words of his demon; lying is second nature to the demons." Arhat Jing Wu said what they all were thinking. "First being the thought of lying."
The amount of hatred oozing out of his words was clear as day to everyone.
